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I’m sorry, I have a great deal of difficulty believing this. Then you obviously haven’t read the whole thing or had to comply with it.

matthewmacleod 9y ago
I have done both. It it possible that you’ve been fleeced by your consultants? You’ve notably avoided talking what you’re doing that would require onerous compliance, details of which would go at least part way towards substantiating our rather unbelievable ideas about the cost of compliance.
- downandout 9y ago
  Have you done a search to verify that others feel that GDPR compliance is easy and cheap? I think you’re way off base here, and I’m not alone.
  - matthewmacleod 9y ago
    Yeah, anybody I’ve met with experience is pretty confident in that. The people I’ve met who aren’t fall into three categories: 1. People who don’t know much about the rules and have concocted a distorted version of them 2. People who are running a business that relies on misuse of personal data and who will be directly affected 3. People who have some ideological or politicical viewpoint which generally opposes regulation. I have encountered no situation where someone has been able to demonstrate to me a convincing case where GDPR compliance is onerous, or indeed more work than any best practices they should have already been following.
    - downandout 9y ago
      I’m beating a dead horse talking to you, but you really should look outside of your own opinion and do some research on the issue one of those days. There is a reason that so many people have issues with this law.
- downandout 9y ago
  Ironically, your employer (from your HN profile) loaded a Facebook tracking pixel, Google Analytics, and a multitude of third-party javascript libraries (from which it calls functions such as "clickTrackerInit") when I went to their home page - all without asking for permission. If you helped with their GDPR implementation, perhaps you aren't as familiar with GDPR requirements as you seem to think you are, because those are glaring violations.

matthewmacleod 9y ago

I have done both. It it possible that you’ve been fleeced by your consultants? You’ve notably avoided talking what you’re doing that would require onerous compliance, details of which would go at least part way towards substantiating our rather unbelievable ideas about the cost of compliance.

downandout 9y ago
Have you done a search to verify that others feel that GDPR compliance is easy and cheap? I think you’re way off base here, and I’m not alone.
- matthewmacleod 9y ago
  Yeah, anybody I’ve met with experience is pretty confident in that. The people I’ve met who aren’t fall into three categories: 1. People who don’t know much about the rules and have concocted a distorted version of them 2. People who are running a business that relies on misuse of personal data and who will be directly affected 3. People who have some ideological or politicical viewpoint which generally opposes regulation. I have encountered no situation where someone has been able to demonstrate to me a convincing case where GDPR compliance is onerous, or indeed more work than any best practices they should have already been following.
  - downandout 9y ago
    I’m beating a dead horse talking to you, but you really should look outside of your own opinion and do some research on the issue one of those days. There is a reason that so many people have issues with this law.
downandout 9y ago
Ironically, your employer (from your HN profile) loaded a Facebook tracking pixel, Google Analytics, and a multitude of third-party javascript libraries (from which it calls functions such as "clickTrackerInit") when I went to their home page - all without asking for permission. If you helped with their GDPR implementation, perhaps you aren't as familiar with GDPR requirements as you seem to think you are, because those are glaring violations.